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ArticleVirulence2017

The antimicrobial effect of blue light: What are behind?

Tianhong Dai

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Article in Virulence, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  18. Photodynamic Therapy Is Effective AgainstFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021
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  19. Light-based technologies for management of COVID-19 pandemic crisis.Journal of photochemistry and photobiology. B, Biology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Tianhong Daia Wellman Center for Photomedicine , Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston , MA , USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Anti-Infective AgentsLightAnti-Bacterial AgentsHumansMicrobial Sensitivity TestsPhotochemotherapyAnti-Bacterial AgentsAnti-Infective Agentsantimicrobial blue lightbacteriumcombination therapydrug resistancehyper-susceptibilitysynergistic effectvirulence factor

Identifiers

PMID28051916
PMCPMC5626200

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.